which hasn t seen this type of attack since the early stages of the war. civilians were forced to move underground of local subway stations as they await incoming strikes. kyiv s mayor says there will be emergency power outages across the city. russia s vladimir putin says this morning s barrage was direct retaliation for that attack on a critical bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. putin blaming ukraine for the aing ta. ukraine has not taken responsibility. this morning, president zelenskyy saying russia is trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth. the general assembly will begin over the illegal annexation over ukrainian territories. caliperry live in kyiv, general mcofry. cal. let me start with you. it was a very, very intense couple of hours. what s the latest on the ground there? reporter: so it was the height of rush hour. 8:15 in the morning, eight hours ago, when we heard a series of explosions. you couldn t mistake them for anything
accountability for the failures that horrible day. this week in no smart part due to the reporting of shimon revealed the school district police department hired a former state trooper under investigation for her actions during the mass sacre, i should say lack of actions during the massacre and shimon uncovered this video of her on the day of the massacre talking to other officers. listen. reporter: an officer asked if her children attend rob eloquent men starry. her response. do you have kids in there? my son is in daycare. he s not old enough. i saw you yeah, no, no. if my son had been in there, i would not have been outside, i promise you that. she said if her son had been inside the school, quote, i would not have been outside. i promise you that. so last night we learned there officer has been fired by the school district. fired the day after shim mon ha tried to get answers why she was hired in the first place since she was under investigation. the studen
least a little of both. first shimon revealed that the school district police department had hired a former state trooper under investigation for corrections during the massacre. i should say lack of actions during the massacre. and shimon unveiled this video of her outside the school on th day of the massacre, talking to other officers. listen. an officer asked if her children attend robb elementary and lozano s response: yeah, my son is in daycare. he s not old enough. no, is my son had been in there i would not have been outside, promise you that. she said if her son had been inside the school, local i woul not have been outside him i promise you that. so last night we learned that that officer has been fired by th e school district to be fired the day after shimon try to get answers about why she been hire in the first place, given she was under investigation by the state. shimon had tried to get answers from the uvalde school dist district s director of student serv
jeremy diamond joins me from the white house. what is on the president s agenda today? reporter: president biden is still at camp david this morning but he will be returning to the white house to host military families for a bar be becue and celebration. the president saying the fourth of july is a sacred holiday, sacred day in our country. make no mistake, our best days still lie ahead. at the same time president biden is dealing with messaging on the current state of the country and the current state of the economy with high inflation and high gas prices which many americans are being reminded this weekend as they hit the roads for the fourth of july weekend. the president oaf the weekend taking to twitter to encourage and push gas station companies to lower the price at the pump. to make sure, in his word, bring down the price you re charging at the pump to reflect the cost you re paying for the product and do it now. that earned the president some backlash with some, in
have no predictions about that hearing, and i m just gonna sit back and experience it. it feels like it s gonna be a big deal. the fact that they booked it for prime time is a really hard ask of all the tv networks to get them to give you that time. it implies that they think they ve got something that they really expect and want millions of americans to watch. and so, i think you can have those expectations, but in terms of what we are gonna learn, we are going to lay out, or what they might sum up from what we ve previously learned from them, i m with you. i just want to see it happen. you know, the best we have is a little suggestion from adam kinzinger, about what to expect. and i will show that tonight, just like everyone else has. that s all we got. and they ve been pretty reliable about delivering really important hearings. and so, we have every right to expect that. yeah, i mean, tonight, adam schiff just told me that we will get tape testimony from witnesses we